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Heiress Daphne Guinness, 44, exhausted by rehearsals for her stint as a judge and award presenter at last night's Graduate Fashion Week gala finale, needed to escape the adoring young designers and her less fabulous co-hosts and take the weight off her heelless Alexander McQueen platforms before facing her public on stage.

But for Guinness - who is never knowingly under-dressed and wouldn't be caught dead in anything from the high street (ironic perhaps that she was presenting the Gold Award on behalf of George at Asda) - there was no dimly lit dressing room filled with Givenchy cushions, exotically scented candles and bouquets of fresh flowers as you might expect. Instead, she had to endure the indignity of parking her miniscule, couture-clad derriere on the floor of the less than glamorous Earls Court 2.

Guinness then neatly slotted a pair of giant headphones over her signature skunk-stripe beehive, curled up in a corner, closed her eyes and had a catnap proving that underneath that fierce exterior, she's just a normal girl at heart. No really.